Description: He is in excellent shape and wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He sports a flattop hair cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Miller profession.

History: Paelias was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Paelias alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Black pearl (1000 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp).

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Halflings. His skin is dark but he possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. He wears suspenders and white workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time. His hair is short and golden. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Darrow was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Guardian. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized violet coat. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Rolf was born the youngest of three triplets. His first spouse was a Unemployed, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Unemployed they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Mortician, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Mortician and was forced into it by his family; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: 5'4" and muscular, this northern man wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around his neck, and a sickle on his belt. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Addict, Lazy. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 400 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (90 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1300 gp). Gold cup set with emeralds (3000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (90 gp).